Richard,
your question can be turned into empirical work, care to research it?
Maria
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From: "Richard Meldrum" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:11 AM
Subject: Why are some disability studies scholar so childish?
> Hello All,
>
> I am relatively new to the area of disability studies, but I am amazed at
how
> childish some scholars are in this area. Whether in my home institution
or in
> the international community, I've never seen such behavior from
professors,
> post-docs, and students. To be clear, I am not referring to the entire
> disability studies community, though an argument can be made that the
> childishness of this small group reflects poorly on the whole. I realize
that
> there are childish scholars in most (all?) academic fields, yet it seems
more
> pronounced in this one.
>
> The question occurs to me, why is this behavior so pronounced in
disability
> studies? Perhaps this same level of behavior exists in other "identity
> fields" (e.g., women's studies, black studies, queer studies, etc.). If
that
> is the case, then perhaps I am pointing out something about the genus and
not
> the species. One plausible explanation I've heard is that disability
studies
> attracts a number of people who are angry at the treatment they haave
received
> in society. Some scholars (e.g., Patricia Wolfe, Rose Galvin, Stephen
French
> Gilson, Elizabeth Depoy, etc.) have written on the hazards of locating
anger
> and pain at the center of an identity group. So is anger and pain to
blame
> for childish behavior among some disability studies scholars?
>
> Richard
>
> Richard Meldrum, LCSW
> Ph.D. Candidate in Disability Studies
> Graduate Research Assistant with Advocacy and Empowerment
> For Minorities with Disabilities
> Department of Disability and Human Development
> College of Applied Health Sciences
> 1640 West Roosevelt Road
> Chicago, IL 60608-6904
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